Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
Kent Beck
When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop.
Alan J. Perlis
80 percent of my problems are simple logic errors. 80 percent of the remaining problems are pointer errors. The remaining problems are hard.
Mark Donner, IBM Watson Research Center
The best writing is rewriting.
E. B. White
How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity —in short: what mathematicians call "elegance"— are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?
Edsger W. Dijkstra
The Floppy Disk Icon means "save" for a whole generation of people who have never seen one.
Scott Hanselman
The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned. Many software tasks have this characteristic because of the sequential nature of debugging.
Fred Brooks
Professionalism has no place in art, and hacking is art. Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.
Jamie Zawinski
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
Larry Wall
In a 5 year period we get one superb programming language. Only we can't control when the 5 year period will be.
Alan J. Perlis